PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24449, 7 November 1940, Page 10

PERSONAL

.Vice-Regal The Governor-General (Viscount Galway) and Lady Galway left for the south yesterday morning after their farewell visit to Dunedin. Mr P. Neilson, M.P.. arrived in Dunedin last night from the north. The Mayor of Wellington (Mr T C. A. Hislop) told a deputation yesterday that he would definitely stand as a candidate for the mayoralty at the next Wellington municipal elections. The administrative heads of New Zealand’s two principal dependencies, Mr H. F. Ayson, Resident Commissioner and Chief Judge of the Cook Islands, and Mr A. C. Turnbull, acting-Admm-istrator of Western Samoa, have arrived in the Dominion on furlough, accompanied by their wives. Passengers by the north-bound Union Airways plane yesterday were Mrs E. Smith and Mr V/. Hazlett for Christchurch, and Mrs H. Brough and Mr C. B Bennett for Wellington. Passengers by the southbound plane were Miss E. Greer from Auckland. Mr A. E. Birch from Wellington, and Miss P. Sew Hoy, Dr Allen Park, and Mr R. G. Stewart 'from Christchurch: 1 One of New Zealand’s besl-kndwn Great War : and commercial .service pilots.’ Squadron Leader T. W. White, ; E.D., has been promoted to the.temper- ’ .ary rank of wing commander in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Wing Commander White retired early last year from commercial flying, but sought service again as sooh as the war started, being appointed shortly afterwards to command the training school at Weraroa. He began flying in 1916, and shot down several German aeroplanes before being himself shot down, in 1918, from a height of 18.000 feet. He landed in enemy territory and was made a prisoner of war. Much of his peacetime commercial flying was done in association with Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and later with East Coast Airways. for which has was chief pilot, and Union Airways. At his retirement he had spent 6500 hours in the air and was never involved in an accident in which a passenger or pilot received injury. He was the first pilot In New Zealand to receive the Efficiency Decoration.